Banana Pancake Bites

“Waking up too early
Maybe we can sleep in
I’ll make you banana pancakes
Pretend like it’s the weekend now
And we could pretend it all the time”
– Jack Johnson

I completely identify with the sentiment in that song every time my alarm goes off on a weekday. I would love to snuggle up in my bed a little longer and then leisurely get up, stay in my pajamas and have someone make me banana pancakes. Doesn’t that sound perfect? While it may not be very practical to sleep in and stay in your PJs every day, with a recipe this quick and easy to throw together (even on a weekday morning) you can have your banana pancakes and pretend just a little.

I used a nice, ripe, sweet banana and since there’s already syrup in these pancakes, it was the perfect amount of sweetness for me. Not too much, not too little. If you’re jonesing for a little more syrup though, you could always serve some on the side for dipping or drizzle a little more over the top.

I actually made a few of these with bacon or breakfast sausage in addition to the banana bites, but I thought the banana ones were by far the most delicious. In case you’re wondering, three strips of cooked turkey bacon or two Wegmans chicken breakfast sausage links can be exchanged for the banana in this recipe and it does not change the Weight Watchers Points+ value. I will definitely try these again with other fruits, especially blueberries. I think I see mini chocolate chip pancake bites in my future as well. Any of your favorite pancake mix-ins should work! I love that these are only 1 Weight Watchers SmartPoints each – I got to eat a handful of light, fluffy banana pancake bites for very low points. Get creative and if you come up with any other amazing mix-ins, I’d love to hear them!

I made bacon and sausage ones too, but the banana ones were by far the yummiest

Banana Pancake Bites

Yield:24 pancake bites

Ingredients:

1 cup Bisquick Heart Smart Pancake & Baking Mix

2/3 cup skim milk

½ cup reduced calorie breakfast syrup

1 large ripe banana, chopped into small pieces

Directions:

In a large bowl, stir together Bisquick mix, milk and syrup until thoroughly combined.

Divide the batter evenly amongst the prepared mini muffin tin cups. Sprinkle the chopped banana pieces over the tops of each muffin cup. Bake in the oven for 12-14 minutes until golden and cooked through.

Maybe honey or agave nectar? You could probably find other flavored syrups too that aren’t maple or pancake syrup flavored. The type they put in fancy coffee drinks? Caramel or a similar flavor would work if you like that.

I just made them this morning so I’m not really sure! I’ve never frozen pancakes before, but they should keep okay in the fridge for a few days. Since they only take a few minutes to put together you could always make a half batch a couple times a week if they end up not keeping well. Hope that helps!

Anonymous replied: — April 25th, 2012 @ 1:02 am

i have been pre-making and freezing pancakes for 2 months now…they heat up in the microwave perfectly also! so i think freezing these would work just as well!!

We had these for breakfast this morning and my kids and I all loved them! Mine only made 16 though, not 24, but that’s ok, maybe I filled the cups too full. This will definitely make my breakfast rotation though!

Thank you so much, I made a batch of these on Monday evening and we finished them yesterday– delicious! I think I will try them with blueberries next time. I just discovered your blog via Pinterest, and am so excited to try your recipes! As a WW member, the points plus values are SO appreciated!

I brought these to work for an office food day, and they were a HUGE hit. Even after I told them that they were WW friendly. I did banana and blueberry, but I agree, the banana are by far the best. Thanks so much for your recipes…keep em comin!

These were a big hit, and I loved that I had all the ingredients in the house so I could surprise my boys on a Sunday morning. I had planned to freeze the leftovers and report back on how they reheated, but I don’t think the boys left any. Will try again and give an update. Thanks!

What size muffin pan did you use? Bite size? I have one a regular size muffin pan, I guess I could use that but am unsure about the points. BTW — first time reader. I heard about your page in my WW meeting yesterday. I have been on WW for 15 days and am down 9lbs. 🙂

These were fantastic!!!! I LOVED the banana and the sausage ones the best. Thanks for sharing. I made them last week and the sausage and bacon ones lasted in the fridge, the bananas turned a little brown but tasted great after a few days.

Made 12 mini bites today as a trial run for a future breakfast event. I made some banana, some blueberry and some banana + chocolate chip! All SO yummy and SO easy! Between me and my roommate, they were all gone within minutes. 🙂

Oh my. Not only were these delicious for brunch, but they also completely saved my morning – I grabbed a few and reheated on my way out the door, and could have sworn I was having brunch again instead of eating breakfast in my car. Thanks for a great recipe!! Keep the muffin-esque recipes coming!

From what I can see they are about three points plus if you use a regular muffin pan which I planned on using, thats all I have lol. My little ones fav is pancakes or french toast!!! And we just went to Maine Maple Sunday last week so I have maple syrup 🙂

I made these last night! I didn’t have a mini muffin pan so I just added 5 minutes to the baking time for my full size pan and they were great! The recipe only made 8 full size muffins so I’ll definitely double it next time.

I made these for breakfast this morning, using real maple syrup and adding a little ground cinnamon and vanilla extract, and they were DELICIOUS! I got 12 full-size muffins out of the recipe, and the real syrup didn’t even change the points very much. For my “big bites”, it’s 2PP for one or 5PP for two. 🙂

We tried dipping apples into pancake batter to make apple pancake rings. It works for small gathering. Your way of making “pancake” saves tons of time for big group. Awesome idea! Thank you for creating it. Do you think this will work with other fruits such as peaches, apriocot or strawberries?

These have become a favorite in our house. Today I did a taste test of three different kinds: banana, banana with a few chocolate chips, and blackberry. The blackberry ones were delicious and tasted like little muffins. But not surprisingly, the kids chose the banana with chocolate chips. I put four chocolate chips per mini-muffin, so not too much.

I would never intentionally not credit a blog appropriately when I adapt a recipe. It does appear that the link was broken but I fixed it. Not sure how that happened. I used totally different ingredients than the recipe I adapted it from, yet used her general concept, hence the adaptation. That is not ripping someone off. Thanks for bringing the broken link to my attention.

Anonymous replied: — July 8th, 2012 @ 8:14 pm

Did I not see a source for this recipe? Anyway, looked at the source recipe and I think emilybites was generous in mentioning it. Afterall, all recipes are adaptions of a “claimed original!”

Made these the other day and my whole family LOVES them! I had to make another batch the next day and will probably make them again today. My 2 year old woke up this morning begging for “anna cakes, mommy!” We’re going to the farmer’s market today and I think we’ll get some strawberries to try with them as well. Thanks for the great recipe!!

Awesome quick breakfast idea. I made them for my kids so I made them full size & used papers, did bake them at 375 degrees & they went closer to 25 mins. Great for school mornings just pop them in the microwave for a few seconds & they are ready to go. 🙂

I saw these on the readers choice award and was so glad because it reminded me about that I had printed out the recipe but never made them! I mixed them up this morning (so fast and easy) and we looved them! The kids wanted to dip theirs in syrup but we all liked them a lot.♥ I can’t wait to try them with other fruits.

First of all THANK YOU for this blog. I am new to WW and have a feeling this site will really be instrumental in helping me stay within my points while not feeling deprived. I know that it takes a lot of time to create and maintain a site like this, so thanks! This was the first recipe I made, but have looked through the others and am really excited to start making them as well! I’ve already bought my mini muffin tin, a doughnut pan, and an immersion blender!! Anyways, I just made these with my 7 year old son. We had fun making them together and they were super easy to make. To pour the batter in the pan, I put the batter in a zip-lock bag, cut the corner off, and squeezed the batter out. This allowed for better control. I did 1/3 with just choc. chips, 1/3 with banana, and 1/3 with both. They turned out GREAT! My kids liked the plain choc. chips the best while I liked the ones with both. Thank you so much. I can’t wait to get started on some more of your recipes! I hope my doughnut pan comes in the mail soon 🙂

We had these last night and the husband loved them. Today I gave some of the leftovers to the baby and he went crazy for them. After they were gone on his tray, he scavenged the pocket on his bib for any crumbs he could find.

I found you on Pinterest and LOVE this recipe. I have to admit, though, that I used real maple syrup. I doubled the recipe today and made 4 dozen. I used a combo of Bisquick Heart Healthy and a whole grain pancake mix that I had. One dozen each of the following flavors: banana cinnamon, fresh strawberry, mini chocolate chips, and speck (diced Italian ham). Delicious!!!! Thanks for the great idea- this is a new family favorite!

Anonymous replied: — January 16th, 2014 @ 9:34 pm

i made some with ww baking mix that i had and they did not taste sweet enough at all for me

I made these ahead for breakfast tomorrow. Wow, they are super easy to make…I am not one to cook or bake a lot (that is changing now that I am on Weight Watchers). My daughter and I both really liked these. I went ahead and made another batch and I have a bag in the freezer so we can take them out as we want. Thanks for all you do to run this website. I have emailed myself about 30 of your recipes since coming across your site last night. I will post them on my blog and link back to your site as I make recipes. I made a recipe tonight that was inspired by one of your recipes. I used a variety of veggies and turkey sausage and sauteed everything using minced garlic and E.V.O.O. I know I may sound lame, but I would have never thought to experiment cooking with peppers and onions or minced garlic until reading your recipes. I couldn’t believe how flavorful my food was. My taste buds are changing for sure. I am hooked, I think, lol. Okay, well I am done writing you a book now. Thanks again for all you are doing. 🙂

I made these with Hungry Jack Buttermilk Pancake mix and 1/4 cup of real maple syrup! YUM! (it’s all I had) According to WW recipe builder they turned out 1pt each just like yours or 7 bites for 6 points!

These were great. I did 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/8 tsp nutmeg and apple instead of banana. I had to cook them for about 25 minutes in a regular size muffin tin; next time I will increase the temp by about 25F….easy and my toddler ate them too

Dumb question as I have been making and flash freezing these forever but I wasn’t doing weight watchers lol. I know fruit is free and so it’s 1pp+ it would be more points with sausage or bacon right even if it’s such a small amount?

My now 15 month old has been eating tons of versions of these it seems like forever (I did see them on a different site first, but yay I have points for me now lol) but we bake 24 of one kind then another and another, flash freeze them and then pull them out heat them in the microwave and boom breakfast that day or a snack another and daddy and I steal them too!

But since getting back on WW Emily I love your site for ideas!

Emily replied: — March 29th, 2014 @ 5:31 pm

I use the recipe builder to determine the WW points, so fruit is not counted as free. It probably depends what sausage or bacon you use, but I doubt it would change. You probably have to run it through the recipe builder if you want to be sure though.

Made these today and they were amazing! I used Carey’s sugar free syrup which did reduce the calories to 28 per muffin. I was wondering if you ever tried using unsweetened almond milk with these? Anyway have some packed for work tomorrow for my breakfast. Thanks your site is one of the best ever!

I really like these… I wonder if it is same point value for unsweetened almond milk and is the “reduced calorie” syrup the same thing as “sugar free” that I used??? If that lowered it any, then I’d add a few chopped pecans

Emily Bites replied: — February 18th, 2016 @ 1:20 pm

Hi Gail,
I’ve never used unsweetened almond milk, so I’d recommend you run the recipe through the WW recipe builder with the ingredient changes you’re making to determine the points!